Sorry LuigiL, that change to 8500 from 8300 didn't help. It did make me take a
closer look at what was going on with CFusion and I found out that when I
restarted (cold not hot) my MAC and then restarted ColdFusion everthing worked
just fine until cFusion would stop do to some error or another. I then would
have to go thru the entire restart to get cfusion to restart.

Also note that the Cold Fusion Launcher will not start cfusion so you need to
use the command line in the console.

Thanks to everyone here for the help (inspiration to where to find a solution
is just as good as a solution in book)